The Meroitic Empire was a powerful Kushite state in the Middle Nile region
of the Sudan, lasting from the fourth century BCE to the fourth century CE. In the early
phase from the ninth century BCE, the seat of power was ...

The ancient East African kingdom of Aksum gradually adopted Christianity from the early- to mid-fourth-century reign of Ezana onwards. The well-known narrative of the late Roman church-historian Rufinus relates a top-down ...